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The Philippines has long been known for its high inequality in distribution of wealth and income; unlike many of its … the Philippines. As a result, the issue of land reform (or ‘agrarian reform’ as more commonly called in the Philippines … of the 20th century; nevertheless land reform in the Philippines has been, and still is, an unfinished business. Against …
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This report has been prepared based on a comparative study which tries to analyze the process to establish and develop cooperatives of rural labourers collective production linked to the Landless Rural Labourers Movement (Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra – MST). The main objective...
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This paper describes how the social capital of rice farmers of the Mekong delta of Vietnam - manifested in the tradition of collective farming practice, changed from the 1940s to 1990s. The reason this collective rice farming had existed for decades, irrespective of critical events that...
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calculations on the Philippines suggest that capital flight contributed to lower the quality of long-term economic growth …. Sustained capital flight over three decades means that capital flight had a role for the Philippines to lose the opportunities … the macroeconomy more effectively, the Philippines remains caught in the perpetuity of crises, its economy hollowed …
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The study argues for the integration of good governance principles in developing financially viable, effective and social equity-laden microcredit strategy for the impoverished agrarian reform beneficiaries in Western Mindanao. It particularly examines the program design and implementation...
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This paper, in a comparative analysis of the Philippines and Indonesia, examines first under what conditions can …
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Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, South Korea, and Thailand have not recouped their losses from the 1997 Asian Crisis …
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Analysis of World Values Survey 2000 data for the Philippines finds that lower income Filipinos are more likely than …
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This paper considers a hypothetical scheme of green payments to induce inter-specific agrobiodiversity in the context of Philippine rice farming. We empirically estimate a model of farmer behavior and then simulate the consequences of alternative (hypothetical) PES schemes under a fixed budget...
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a long way in pulling the poor out of poverty in the rural Philippines. …
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